For example, if a company has long-term debt of $100 million and total equity of $278 million, the debt-equity ratio of the firm is 36 percent. Of note, industries often have debt-equity ratio norms; therefore, investors should only compare ratios of firms operating in the same sectors.he total debt ratio compares the total liabilities with the total assets of a firm. Unlike the debt-equity ratio, short-term assets and liabilities are factored into the equation. The calculation is straightforward, the firm's total liabilities are divided by total assets.
Definition of qual. in English: 1  qual. 2  a piece of flavoured ice or ice cream on a stick. 3  a rope with a suspended handle or pulley enabling a person to slide between two points. 4  a dance move popular in the sixties.
quart noun [C] uk / kwÉËt / us written abbreviation qt âº MEASURES a unit of measurement for liquids, equal to approximately 1.14 litres in Britain, or 0.95 litres in the US: Consumption of ice cream and frozen desserts in the U.S. fell from 22.7 quarts per person in 2000 to 20.3 quarts per person in 2005. (Definition of âquartâ from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press)